Hmm, what if you could run a server on your mobile? Jetty, the lightweight Java HTTP server has been ported to Android as i-jetty.

You can use Jetty to run server logic and Servlets right on the phone itself.

For example, you could take a Web based application and deploy it on the phone, and have the phone’s browser talk locally. Jetty also supports Comet style Web development, so your little Web browser based application could get some PUSH.

<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="org.mortbay.ijetty">
    <application android:icon="@drawable/icon">
        <activity class=".IJetty" android:label="@string/app_name">
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:value="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
                <category android:value="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>
    </application>
</manifest>

Nokia issued a press release unveiling the new device management features of its Intellisync Mobile Suite:

Nokia Intellisync Device Management delivers single service-optimized device management platform that seamlessly combines OMA DM and Nokia Intellisync Mobile Suite device management technologies

New York, NY - Nokia unveils today the newest device management features of Nokia Intellisync Mobile Suite. The next generation release offers single platform to manage both OMA DM compatible mobile devices as well as devices running Nokia Intellisync Mobile Suite client. This technology approach provides flexibility to support a wide variety of mobile devices and operating systems with advanced device management functionalities such as device configuration, application management, asset collection, help desk, theft-loss protection and recovery…

Mobility Site has the skinny.

Volantis, maker of the Volantis Mobility Server has done what all of the cool kids are doing, and has started down an open source strategy.

Today, they released a “community” version of their mobility server for free, and it will shortly become GPLv3.

The Volantis Mobility Server, both as a free download and, ultimately, an open source product, includes all the features necessary to deliver corporate content to mobile phones, including:

• a multi channel server, which automatically adapts web markup for mobile and other devices
• the XDIME markup interpreter, which implements the emergent DIAL standard
• development tools, delivered as plugins to the Eclipse open source developers toolkit
• a client side mobile AJAX widget library
• a device database, providing information necessary to render content for specific devices, and including information about more than 4600 devices

Of course, the devil is often in the details of what they opened up, and what is still in the professional version.

You can see the comparison of the products yourself.